play houses

My super duper lucky girls got a tour of play houses yesterday. Not only did they play yesterday at 3 different places they also got to play with their really good friends twice and some new friends once. It started at All About Kids for Av's gymnastics. Caroline started in her class so that made Av's day and now Max is there for C to play with. We of course had to stay later to let them play more after class. Which is great for J bc he finally gets a little time each weekend to get some much needed stuff done on the house. When we got home from that we had lunch and watched a little Spartan bb. They were having a GREAT game so it was fun to watch. They shot 64% which is a new high for them so it was fun to watch. Then the girls and I went to Chick Fila for an afternoon snack and to meet a girl from Av's class. Makayla has a little sister Alyssa that is the very same age as C. They were both born in Oct so they could be in K together too. We were there for 2 hours!!!! Michelle and I just sat and talked. It was awesome. The 4 girls played so well together. All we bought were juice boxes and a coke so I didn't spend any money either. Have to improvise in the winter when we can't go to parks. When we got home from there we got ready and picked up the boys to meet the Masons for dinner. We wanted to do something special for Av for her good report card. She doesn't care about food or going out to dinner (none of my kids do they would much rather play food is very secondary to them) so that in itself is not a treat for her so we took her to a play place that has dinner too. Kind of like Chuckie Cheese but better. It has bouncies and bowling. We had never been. We ran into some other kids they knew too so at one point they were all running wild playing tag. It was wild but the kids had the best time. John and I were able to have a beer so that made it pretty ok for us too. As we were leaving J said, "that was fun I would go back, next year." heheheh After that the girls went home and happily crawled into their beds. Today will be a day of rest for sure!!

uneventful week

We had a nice week, nothing eventful though. E was getting over his cold so we laid pretty low all week. The girls went to school and had fun as normal. Thursday we made it to hbr which was nice. I love that hour talking to my friends there. I figured out how to make it enjoyable there. I bring lots of fun toys for E and C to keep them entertained. They are contained in a small room with me so that helps as long as they have fun things to play with. E's eyes are no longer pink so that's nice. The day he got pink eye when J came home C told him, "Everett doesn't have blue eyes anymore, they are pink." hehehhe Oh and C told me this week, "me and Joey (a friend from her class) say we are best friends forever all the time." She's funny. She plays with the boys way more than the girls. When she talks about friends from school its always the boys. Joey and Adam. She's a little tomboy that's all dressed up in a tutu skirt and LOTS of jewelry. Av got her report card and again it was pretty good. She brought up her math grade so we were super happy about that. Her reading grade went down a little. She is having problems sounding out words but that is partly due to her speech problems. We will work on it like we do everything else. Otherwise everything stayed as an S. The number grades either stayed a 2 or went up to a 3 (out of 4) so we were very happy about that too. I think from what I can tell from it she is not in the top of the class but she's not in the bottom either. Sometimes average is all we can hope for and be very grateful for it.

glad today is over

Today was a weird day. E woke up sick. Couldn't decide whether to take him to MD or not. He had green stuff coming out of his nose but it had just started so decided probably not. So we dropped Av off at school and instead of heading to the gym like normal we came home. We hung around here and got a few things done but then needed to go run a few errands. We didn't have a single wipe left in the house so I wanted to run to Costco. Just as we were getting there, a friend calls me and says we are under a tornado warning. WHAT??? I knew more storms were headed our way but this am according to the news it was nothing big and the bad stuff was more north of us. Where are the weather texts I'm supposed to get?!?!? OMG Costco is not where you want to be with your 2 young kids in a tornado. J was calling me from work saying he was in the basement of his building. He was worried about us. It must be bad out to make him worry. Ugh. So we spent 45 minutes with another mom huddled by the bathrooms. The safest place in there, far away from the huge steel shelfs. Finally we were in the clear. It was still raining though. First thing I did when I was out of there was call Av's school. They were fine. Just getting out of the hallway and off to a late lunch. Yes the whole time I was scared not having her with me but I also knew she was prob in a safer place than we were so that made me feel better. It was just about then that I noticed E's eye was pink. Ugh so off to the MD we did go. So after being stuck in Costco, spending another 45 minutes off the phone with AT&T (major issues with our cable lately) and running to the MD I got nothing done today. We didn't even have bread or eggs in the house (the plan was to head to the grocery after Costco) so I had to piece a dinner together. I actually did a good job on that. Av came home very happy today. Her time in the hallway was fun she said. hehehe She also got to head to the principal's office this am with a few other students to help lead the pledge of allegiance!!! She said she had to introduce herself and tell what class she was in. She was cute pretending to do it again, "I'm Av-e-ry (the way she says it....grrrr) from Ms. Roth's class." That school is amazing. She comes home happy every day. Any school that makes my little girl so happy makes me happy too!!!!

southern wimps

OMG I'm raising southern wimps here. No Michiganders in this house (other than me of course). Av came home today and said, "the sock hop got canceled for tonight." I said, "I know, that's a bummer, do you know why?" "Because all the snow and ice" she said. I about died. There is a dusting on the ground. Our yard is more a mud pit than anything else right now. Not enough snow to make a snow ball and ice? What ice??? This town is turning her into a "jump the gun, send the kids home and shut the city down for the inch of snow that's coming." I was fine with it until I saw that it was making my kid such a wimp. They got sent home from school yesterday the minute the day counted as a full day. We never got all the snow they were predicting. I told Av she was so lucky bc where I grew up in MI we lived for months and months with feet of snow on the ground and we NEVER got sent home early. She looked at me and said, "I don't want to live in Michigan." heheheh

trilingual someday???

My daughter, my wonderful, smart, kind, beautiful, thoughtful, amazing daughter. My 6 year old who I worry about constantly, more than just normal mom worry, blew me away tonight. She counted to 10 in 2 other languages. Chinese and spanish. Could she get any more amazing?

homework

Avery's teacher has sent home "I can statements." It's stuff she needs to be able to do for this next report card. It's amazing. For social studies she needs to know what a globe is, where we live on a map, what the green part is, what the blue part is, that she lives on planet earth, in the USA along with much more. I was going over it with her last night (she got out of school early due to weather so we had a lot of extra time) and she knew all this stuff. Already. I was amazed. We also have been talking about directions a lot. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. She knows that stuff too. Then when J and I were eating our dinner I handed her her speech homework. It was new and we had never done it. She "read" all the words herself and said the words almost perfectly. There were pictures but the words were lumberjack, lawn mower, lemonade, log cabin, living room and life jacket not things she is totally familiar with. I am sure she has been over these pics with her speech teacher a few times but she is remembering and learning and picking everything up that she should be. She is amazing and is going to be just fine!!!

smoothie king

this little boy is a crazy about smoothies. I get out the blender and he goes CRAZY. He wants it that minute. It takes me a few minutes to get it together so the whole time he is attached to my leg yelling at me. heheh kind of funny. He is so happy and cute when he gets what he wants.